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Coke Connoisseur Rota
rjbarbal@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rjbarbal@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Sep 28 00:32:41 1993
Prof. Rota always drinks a coca-cola during class. Today, a student
bought him an extra can. Try picturing him saying this in that great
accent of his. :) I can't quite do this justice, but here's the
closest I can remember:
Rota: Thanks for the second coke.
[finishing off the first coke.]
This is a particularly good vintage of coke.
student: Vintage?
Rota: What? Don't you appreciate the finer things in life? Cokes
have different vintages just like wines. Wines have their
quality measured by the year, but cokes have it measured by
the month. For example, this is an especially good July coke.
The vintage also, of course, depends on the region where the
coke came from: the best come from Georgia and Iowa.
[starting on the second coke, and scowling]
Now this one is of a different vintage - an almost repulsively
different vintage....
